PHILADELPHIA — The National Rifle Association has agreed to pay an Iowa couple $450,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a scuffle at the group's national convention in June 1998. The settlement averts a retrial that was scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in Philadelphia. Kenneth Brodbeck of Des Moines, Iowa, had sued the NRA and its president, actor Charlton Heston, for defamation and battery, saying he was roughed up by an NRA security guard during the... (GunPolicy.org)